For this
tutorial, as for all of them, we are going to make a lot of
similar frames/borders, with the same color/fill/pattern - using
the same steps over again, so next time I'm only referring to 2
Color (=Foreground color) or 3 Gold (=fill with the downloaded
gold-fill). Just repeat the steps I'm explaining for the first
frame/border. (Always expand sides equally, and with the pixels
mentioned in front of the color.)
To make it more easy to select a border, right click/All,
right click/Border and set the Pixels of the border for the
Border width, Direction: Inward, Shape: Box.
You can always use the Magic Wand Tool, but this way it's more
easy if you use similar colors for the background and the
border. (On the assumption that all sides have been expanded
equally!)
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Open
the picture you want to use, and choose a nice Foreground color
from the picture. For this example I picked the color 51/115/157
(white hand).
Go
to Adjust/Expand Canvas/Expand sides equally 2 pixels,
Expand color: White, and select the border.
Edit/Fill/Image (red arrow)/File and find the texture/fill you want to use (white arrow). For
this frame I used the one I've included inside the zip file
for you - tut_frame_001_goldpattern.jpg.
Remember to check the box Tile the
image (1). Click OK.
Deselect.
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Expand sides equally 2
pixels, Expand color: Foreground Color (white arrow), and select
the new border.
Go to Effect/Noise/Add Noise/Options: Varied and
Variance: 20.
Deselect.
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We are going to make several more frames like the 3 frames
(also the same combination 1-2-1), so next time I'm only referring
to the frames 1-2-1. Just repeat the steps we've done right
now.
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Expand sides equally 15 pixels,
Expand color: Foreground Color. Select the border and go to Edit/Fill/Magic Gradient
(1) and find
Mode 11 (2). Click the Edit button (white hand) and choose the palette
102 (3).
Right click on the black squares (red arrow) and change the
color to your Foreground color (51/115/157). Right Click the
white squares and change the color to a matching color
(234/245/253). Click Add (4) and your palette will be saved to
the Palette Ramp Editor. Click OK twice, but be sure you've chosen
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Go
to Photo/Lensfilter/Gradient Filter and choose the Preset:
Custom (red arrow). Set the First and the Second color (1) to
your Foreground Color.
You could of course leave the
Fill/ Magic Gradient as it was, but I liked this color effect
better after using the Photographic effect.
Deselect.
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Now
you should make a set of the frames 1-2-1, as we've done
before.
Expand sides equally 30 pixels, Expand color: Foreground Color and select the border.
Go to Edit/Trace Edges/Selection Marquee, and accept the standard settings.
Change the Mode from Horizontal Deform to 3D Round, the Color
to your foreground color, the Border to 12, and leave the
Depth at 30.
Keep the border selected and go to Effect/Funhouse (red arrow)/Tile
Mirror (white arrow). Use these settings (1): 115/115.
Keep the border selected.
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Go
to Web/Button Designer/Any Shape/Basic (red arrow). Set the Light angle to 135,
the Light elevation to 40, Bevel size to 5 and Bevel
smoothness to 7.
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Choose Bevel
(white arrow) and pick the last Bevel type (1).
Deselect. Now
we need another set of the 1-2-1 frames, and then
you're finished.
Merge All and Save As.
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That's it! A beautiful, special
frame for a really fantastic artwork. But don't stop here ...
try other combinations and you will discover that you have
many possibilities to make astonishing frames with PI. HAVE FUN!!!
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If you need any help with
this tutorial - or want to make suggestions to improve it -
please email me!
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